Grammar
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Today's xkcd:
Mouseover title: "Communication is one of the most popular ways to transmit information, ahead of rivals such as"
The explanation and discussion on explainxkcd.
April 7, 2026 @ 3:22 pm · Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
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Today's xkcd:
Mouseover title: "Communication is one of the most popular ways to transmit information, ahead of rivals such as"
The explanation and discussion on explainxkcd.
April 7, 2026 @ 3:22 pm · Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
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JPL said,
April 7, 2026 @ 5:26 pm
Maybe they wanted to refer to "non-configurational" languages. Does 'grammar' refer only to the morphosyntax, or does it include the structure of the proposition (which may differ from one language to another)?
Nelson Goering said,
April 8, 2026 @ 1:50 am
JPL, if it wasn't clear from the comic already, the mouseover tells us that the joke is that there isn't any other option.
Ross Presser said,
April 27, 2026 @ 9:55 am
Your link to "explanation" on explainxkcd goes to the most recent posting there, not to the posting about the comic you've embedded. That link should be explanation